Virals

Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.

I'm a big fan of Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan series as well as Bones, the TV series it's vaguely based on. When I heard about Virals, I knew I had to read it. While it's very different from her other work, Virals is very similar in both the scientific atmosphere and deep character development.

Summary

This is a fast paced book about a teenage girl, Tory Brennan, and her group of friends. She has just moved to Morris island to live with her father Kit after her mother dies. While trying to figure out an old unsolved mystery they catch a virus from a wolf dog, Coop. Tory and her pack( Ben, Hi, Shelton and Coop) Use this new virus that gives them super senses to finally solve the mystery.

After coming in contact with a virus from a wolfdog. Victoria Brennan and her friends experience a change in their DNA, giving them heightened senses and strength. In the first installment of the series, the group find a body and decide to find the murderer.

Tory Brennan, niece of the famous forensic scientist Temperance Brennan, moves to live with her stepfather, Kit, on an island. She meets and becomes friends with the other teens on the island. The group rescues Cooper, a wolf-canine, and through him is changed by the experiments conducted on the dog by scientists on the island.